PSN got severely hacked, your personal information was stolen

The Playstation blog announced today the real reason behind the recent PSN outage. Black hat crackers have gained access to the Sony internal systems, and stolen the personal information from all PSN users. The stolen information is the following:

While there is no evidence at this time that credit card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, out of an abundance of caution we are advising you that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may have been obtained.

Thank you Sony… I have 2 different credit cards entered in your system, will you pay me back when my money gets stolen?

The safe thing to do for now is to change your password on the websites you visit a lot (if, like some people, you have the same password everywhere), and check your bank regularly for suspicious activity.

@NoobSauce: this announce is really bad for Sony, they wouldn’t tell this if it weren’t true. They will lose customers and lots of money with this announce. They are being honest about what’s happening, which is a really good move for their customers who are now aware of the situation, but clearly not for them. So I don’t see how this could be a marketing move here.

Now I feel super bad I put my real information in there, for each one of my accounts (I have one per country…)

So, this is what happened. how long till they fix this issue? This could destroy sony if the people who did this uses the credit card info. Would sony give every one the back the money that gets stolen? wow, this sucks… but these guys i have to admit, are very impressive to hack it like this. By the way, This is the first time i posted on here. good work wololo. love the site.

Credit cards are generally covered by fraud protection through the issuing bank. Visa even has a fraud protection guarantee on every card with their logo. Banks have recourse available to them for transactions reported as fraudulent. Sony can’t do any of those things. So watch you accounts, report anything strange to your bank and many will return funds from fraudulent transactions within 24 hours. No one is going to need Sony to pay them back. Legally, you even have 6 months to notice and report a fraudulent transaction. And considering Sony has said they don’t believe any credit card numbers were compromised, only that they can’t rule it out, there’s no sense starting a panic. Identity theft and compromised passwords are a far bigger concern.

Err..This shouldn’t affect most people on this site. If you’re here, you’ve most likely hacked your console. WHICH MEANS YOU SHOULD NOT ACCESS PSN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I happen to use MediaGo and the Playstation Store to buy my stuff, when Sony does not lock me out of the PSN for various reasons. So yeah, although I haven’t used the PSN in a while (because Sony does not let me), I stil have my private information in there.

I’m sure this happen. Anonymous rejecting the cause? Psh, you *do* realize that anonymous is just bunch of random people in IRC, supporting the threat against Sony. Thus, the “hacker” is obviously apart of anonymous because you cannot really define who anonymous are.

Wake up and smell the coffee

Screw Anonymous and those who support it. I feel bad for Sony situation. And just to show you, I only have a PSP-1001 that I haven’t touch in years. I just happen to play Wagic a lot

as I told on other forums already, if Anonnews doesn’t mark the act as an “Anonymous” act, then it’s not. It is a loose organization, and the only thing they can really do is put an “Anonymous” label on some stuff that happens. When they don’t put such a label, it means it’s not one of their acts, by definition.

Even if the hackers have been involved with other anonymous actions in the past, this specific action is not labeled as “Anonymous”.

Put in other words, the fact that you work for company X does not mean that your posts on my blog represent Company X’s opinion, not even that you intended to post in their name.

Or another example, my work on Wagic is not a Greenpeace product, even if I went to an anti-nuclear protest last week. (not that this happened, but you see the point)

I think people related to the annonymous attacks are responsible for this, but obiously they are doing it by themselves and not declaring it an annonymous (group) thing. No need to be sherlock holmes to figure this is a consecuense of all the Sony hating annonymous (group) fueled that time.

damn i think hack a firmware, a psp or a ps3 isn’t bad because we have all the right to play our backups o some homebrews but hack the psn that sucks if sony bankruptcy we will never have the NPG or new games i’m in disagree with this hackers fu*k them :/

“After days of speculation, Sony has confirmed that PlayStation Network and Qriocity were infiltrated and personal details, including credit card data, was compromised. The system was hacked three full days before Sony shut down PSN access. The official announcement comes only after Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal publicly chastised Sony for it’s slow response to the problem. It is also interesting to note that they waited until after the press conference for their soon-to-be-released PlayStation tablet and after the stock market has closed.”

thats why SONY, MICROSOFT,squre enix and even facebook is hiring hackers.. because they know hackers these day are far more way better than their programmers and developers and their so scared that one day their security will be breached.. with hackers by their side, no one will sabotage their products..

The other thing I’m wondering is why I haven’t received an email or any other communication from Sony telling me that my hypothetical street address and credit card information was stolen.

That seems like kind of an important thing to do. If I wasn’t up on gaming news all the time I would never have known unless I tried accessing the PSN and looked up why it wasn’t working (I haven’t connected my PSP to it ever since I put HBL on it).

Well it has a common component used by any cheap politician since the beginning of times (and a popular one lately)… the name is FEAR.

To me this is just some bullsh*t to turn ppl against the hacker community and cause fear and confusion, that’s how you turn a big bunch of free ppl into slaves ;D.

It would be funny that they went as far as to abuse the information just to prove their point and blame others for it. Just my two cents, if i’m wrong then i apologize and rectify, they’re not liars, they’re just stupid, Lol.

Sony cannot do that. If they said there was an attack then it should be true. Your comment just fuels all the conspiracy theorist out there and the Sony hating. You are the one creating fear like a politician.

wow…Sony is going downhill, real hard-first,6.20 hen was released givving a lot of life to the homebrew community. and anonymous attack.then 6.38 exploit found.and let us also not forget ps3 being hacked.and now psn got pwned Sony is really having problems NOW…

Sony is the one responsible for securing my information. I of course don’t like the hackers who did that, but in my eyes Sony is responsible for not securing their network. If your bank was robbed by hackers, you would question their quality as a bank. You would hope for the hackers to be found and punished, but you would also ask your bank to take measures against that kind of action.

You probably never worked in computer security, so your view on the company’s responsibility seems incorrect to me in this case.

Most companies dealing with credit card numbers get attacks on a regular basis, and have appropriate security measure for that. Sony trusted the security of their console too much, and did the mistake a n00b in security would make: trusting the input from the client. This is computer security 101, they definitely need to take the blame for that.

There’s also problems with their statement about our passwords being stolen. Do they really store our password in clear? are they THAT dumb?

Ok, I really don’t know about security, but in that case there’s no such thing as an invulnerable system. I’m sure you give your info to Sony knowing this can happen (because you know about security stuff). Just don’t blame them for the hating, I’m pretty sure the dumb idiots who stole all that info are not going to be able to use it anyways. Now you and all people are informed and can take measurements, and something tells me the ones taking the info don’t know what they have in their hands or if they use that info they can be found more easy.

Yes, there is no invulnerable system, but there are basic security rules and laws for companies that handle credit card payments.

How comes the passwords went out? Were they stored in clear? A php beginner wouldn’t do that kind of mistake!

Credit card information stolen? How is that even possible, this information is supposed to be encrypted. I work for a company that accepts online payments, no employee can access the credit card information once it is stored. There are very precise contracts about such security with Visa and Mastercard, and let me know that if Credit Card information leaked from Sony, Visa is going to ask them to pay for that, and explain their security mistakes. If things go really bad, I also think governments might ask Sony to give explanations.

So no, when I give my Credit card information to a respected company, I assume some of my private information might leak in case of a hack such as my address and my birthday, but not my password or my credit card information. The fact that they announced that it might be possible people have had this information really makes me wonder about their security systems, and how they actually handle people’s privacy.

If a hacker could get my credit card info and my password, how can I be sure that a Sony employee didn’t access this information too? This shouldn’t even be a possibility.

In fact, US government is making the firsts questions to Sony about this security breach: senator Richard Blumenthal is criticizing Sony for this problem and asking for responses in the system to SCE president, Jack Tretton. Even the firsts rumors about misuse and fraudes are circulating in internet. So, be careful with your credit card information, and check your bank account frequently.

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